Basilica of Saint Nicholas
Neo-Baroque basilica near the harbour, patron church of Amsterdam's sailors, with a soaring fifty-eight-metre dome.
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This guide to the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam traces Amsterdam's Catholics back to 1578, when the city's churches were seized and worship was pushed into hiding inside a canal house for over two centuries. It follows architect Adrianus Bleijs, who designed this neo-Baroque basilica by the harbour in the 1880s as a monument fit for the city's patron of sailors, and Jan Dunselman, who spent nearly forty years painting the walls around you. Look up at the fifty-eight-metre dome while you listen.
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